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Article

15 Jul 2013

Author:
Shimon Shiffer, Ynetnews

US outraged after Israel backs out of terror suit

[The US is] outrage[d] at Israel's decision to back out of their commitment to a terror prosecution involving a Chinese bank allegedly laundering monies for Hamas...[T]he Chinese government threatened to cancel...[Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu's visit if Israel refused to promise that senior Israeli defense officials would refrain from testifying against the Bank of China in a federal court trial currently underway in New York. According to the report, China conditioned Netanyahu's visit on the demand the officials retract their promise to testify in the trial being led by the family of terror victim. The case itself is a civil suit filed by Sheryl and Yekutiel Wultz..., whose son Daniel was killed in terror attack in Tel Aviv in 2006 when he was only 16 years old. According to the suit, the money used by Hamas to undertake the terror attack reached the terrorist group through a money laundering scheme run the Chinese bank in which some $6 million were laundered through trade.